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I think for Japanese, Rikaichan probably beats Readlang right now because it can detect word boundaries, and probably has other features specific to Japanese that I can't afford to spend time on with Readlang yet.

It would be awesome to improve Japanese support later after it's achieved success with the main European languages.

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Yeah, I took a look at your Japanese mode, and while I'm impressed that it works at all, it has some problems with Japanese's high concentration of homographs and homonyms.

First thing I ran into (second character in the text!) was 月, in this case it was part of 夕月(approximately "evening moon"), but it separated the two characters and translated 月 statically as "month" instead of "moon", which it meant in this case.

This stuff can be hard, I've tried for myself and honestly, I'm not up to the task unless I can make a living at it.

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